Institute of Astronomy Seminars take place each Wednesday in the Sackler Lecture Theatre and are preceeded by a bread and cheese lunch in the Hoyle Foyer at 12:30. IoA Colloquia take place each Thursday during Full Term in the Sackler Lecture Theatre and are preceded by tea at 15:30 and followed by a wine reception in the Hoyle Foyer. Joint Colloquia with the Cavendish Astrophysics group are on a Tuesday or Thursday.

Talks Archive

The Institute keeps an archive of previous talks at the IoA.

Additional Talks Information

Upcoming Institute of Astronomy Talks

Tuesday 23 October 2018

Speaker to be confirmed

Journal Club

Series: Exoplanet Meetings
Time: 16:00-17:00
Venue: Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute  [details]

Wednesday 24 October 2018

William Coulton

Constraining Neutrino Mass with the Tomographic Weak Lensing Bispectrum

Series: Institute of Astronomy Seminars
Time: 13:15-13:45
Venue: Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA  [details]

Deyan Mihaylov

Astrometric effects of a stochastic gravitational wave background

Series: Institute of Astronomy Seminars
Time: 13:45-14:15
Venue: Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA  [details]

Thursday 25 October 2018

Ralph Schoenrich (Oxford)

Shaken up: Gaia DR2 and the warped Milky Way disc

Series: Institute of Astronomy Colloquia
Time: 16:00-17:00
Venue: Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm)  [details]

Friday 26 October 2018

Harley Katz (Oxford)

Emission Line Properties of High-Redshift Galaxies: Predictions of Lya, Infrared, and Nebular Lines for ALMA and JWST

Series: Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group
Time: 11:30-12:30
Venue: Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building  [details]

Monday 29 October 2018

Simon Casassus (Universidad de Chile)

Title to be confirmed

Series: Exoplanet Meetings
Time: 16:00-17:00
Venue: Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute  [details]

Wednesday 31 October 2018

Hilke Schlichting

Formation & Evolution of Close-in Exoplanets

Series: Institute of Astronomy Seminars
Time: 13:15-14:15
Venue: Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA  [details]

Thursday 01 November 2018

Olmo Martinez - Tesco supply chain

TBC

Series: Data Intensive Science Seminar Series
Time: 13:00-14:30
Venue: Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building  [details]

Marie Martig (LJMU)

The structure of galactic thick disks

Series: Institute of Astronomy Colloquia
Time: 16:00-17:00
Venue: Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm)  [details]

Friday 02 November 2018

Valeriya Korol (Leiden)

Multi-messenger study of the Milky Way with LISA, Gaia and LSST

Series: Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group
Time: 11:30-12:30
Venue: Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building  [details]

Upcoming External Talks

Tuesday 23 October 2018

Chris Hamilton

Secular dynamics of binaries in stellar clusters

Series: Informal Lunch Seminars in AFD
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge  [details]

Wednesday 24 October 2018

Ivan Todorov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge

Series: Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium
Time: 14:15-15:15
Venue: MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences  [details]

Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching

Scott Lecture II : Realizing and Probing Topological Matter using Ultracold Quantum Gases

Series: Scott Lectures
Time: 16:00-17:00
Venue: Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics  [details]

Friday 26 October 2018

Peter Millington (University of Nottingham)

Quasi-normal modes and fermionic vacuum decay around a Kerr black hole

Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19)  [details]

Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching

Scott Lecture III : Beyond Statistical Mechanics - Probing Quantum Matter out of Equilibrium

Series: Scott Lectures
Time: 16:00-17:00
Venue: Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics  [details]

Monday 29 October 2018

Rennan Barkana

Title to be confirmed

Series: Cosmology Lunch
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room]  [details]

Adam Finley (Exeter)

Solar and Stellar Rotation - Current Developments in Wind Braking

Series: DAMTP Astrophysics Seminar
Time: 14:00-15:00
Venue: MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge  [details]

Wednesday 31 October 2018

Chris Fewster, York

Title to be confirmed

Series: Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium
Time: 14:15-15:15
Venue: MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences  [details]

Friday 02 November 2018

Rachel Rosen (Columbia)

Title to be confirmed

Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19)  [details]

Monday 05 November 2018

Matteo Biagetti

Title to be confirmed

Series: Cosmology Lunch
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room]  [details]